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Old 17-07-2003, 10:53 PM
Chris Malcolm
 
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Default Do Theories Have to be Testable to be Scientific?

"greywolf42" writes:

No hypothesis can be considered part of the scientific method if it is not
fundamentally disprovable.


Only if you adhere to Popper's hypothesis about the scientfic method,
which has been falsified. There are more classes of scientific
statements, hypotheses, etc., than Popper considered.
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